Moderator - Twann Atkins

Heidi Cook

Delegate Betsy B. Carr serves the 69 th district, which includes portions of the City of Richmond in
the Virginia House of Delegates.

Betsy represented the fifth district of the City of Richmond on the Richmond School Board from
2006-2010. Betsy Carr was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2009. In the House of
Delegates, she serves on the Appropriations, Transportation, General Laws, and Rules Committees.
She also serves on the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Commission, and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. She is Treasurer of the House
Democratic Caucus.

Previously, Betsy worked as Outreach Director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, supervisor of
statewide programs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, community relations and resource
development chairperson at the University of Richmond’s Women’s Resource Center, and as a
Development Associate at the Virginia Historical Society. While active in the Junior League she
chaired the training committee.

Betsy is an honors graduate of Hollins College (now Hollins University). She is the first Hollins
graduate to be elected to serve in the Virginia General Assembly. She has three grown sons and six
grandchildren.

Senator Ryan McDougle

Since joining the Senate in 2006, Republican Caucus Chairman Ryan McDougle has established himself as a key leader in the chamber.  Ryan is a lifelong resident of Hanover.  After graduating from James Madison University and earning a law degree from William & Mary, he served as a prosecutor in Hanover before establishing his solo law practice.  After serving in the House of Delegates from 2002-2005, Ryan won a special election to the Senate in 2006.  He then won subsequent full terms in 2007 and 2011.  Ryan is an effective and responsive Senator for 4th District families.

Patrick Cushing